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Yeah and Thus Spake Zarathustra was assigned reading for Nazis, nothing new here.

Read Kierkegaard, it's a little more complex.

>>9137373

Right, yet Nietzsche would have found the Nazis deplorable.

Nietzsche himself says that he would not consider anyone an expert on any of his texts until they had read all of his texts. The Nazis didn't understand his works, they picked and chose passages which they could contort as justification.

>Nothing new here
>Kierkegaard is a little more complex

What the fuck are you trying to say? Please try and contribute something of value with your posts, or at least something interesting

>>9137428
>Nietzsche himself says that he would not consider anyone an expert on any of his texts until they had read all of his texts.
And I bet you still haven't read everything, considering you probably don't even speak German. But keep thinking you're an expert.

Typically no, unless it has a wider relevance to the story itself. Death Cab For Cutie are quite awful so I don't see them being used outside of terrible college kid novellas and pandering young adult fiction

>>9137307
wtf. only 30 somethings listen to them. the part I wanted to add was "that love is watching someone die"

30-somethings that are desperately trying to reclaim their college years where the biggest problem was a girl not fucking them.
What Sarah Said isn't that insightful, at least I think. "Who's Going To Watch You Die" works well as a refrain but lyrically the song isn't great. I'd avoid it.

>>9137286
Nope, since there is only one spot available.

>>9137286
How is it different from being Freudian or Jungian psychoanalyst, if I may ask ?

>>9137342
Freud
>It is all about lust
Jung
>It is all about myths
Lacan
>It is all about ???

>>9137184
Big
for me

>>9137184
I ordered it as a coffee table book and it's too big for my fucking coffee table. ffs

>>9137204
I put legs on mine and used it as an Ottoman.
I call it Istanbul

>>9137087
If that is the situation, you're lucky. Understanding everything is the worst thing that can happen to you.

>>9137087
*newfag in first line. Fuck autocorrect.

>>9137087
>read more fundamental literature like SWTG and bible
>read some help books on how to read analytically
>read companion guides to works you read

Desu, don't listen to above anon, but maybe you are right
I was in a similar situation but I think I might be addicted to the dopamine rush I get when I find new information

>>9137058
>the world of intellectuals is a sterile wasteland
What would an autistic brainlet know about the world of intellectuals? Also:
>talking to a pasta

>>9137079
what ? why would some someone do something like that ? I thought I was talking heart to heart with anon. Is everything fake on the internet ?

I enjoy reading and I will continue to do it :)
My girlfriend enjoys reading and we often read on vacation :)
>this triggers the /pol/ cuck

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Well /lit/, I'm three weeks into using Differin and am starting to purge (at least that's what I hope it is) so it looks like I'll be spending the next week or two indoors until the breakouts hopefully subside. What books should I read and what philosophies should I contemplate while I'm in hiding?

Getting laid, becoming smarter and feeling superior won't make you happy.

how can u no nuthin
if nowin nuthin would require nowin that u no nuthin

why r dicks

also, is it possible for hegels lord and bondsman actually to have a dialogue, since one is predicated on the vita activa and the other on the via contemplativa, and to what degree is badiou's distinction between the philosopher and the sophist apply, that is, is philosophy a question of armed force or of disarmed reason

but mainly, dicks

How do I return to unmolded clay?

Mr Jones says you can never be lonely when everybody loves you.

Meestah Jones e-says man can never be lonely when everyone laves you. Meestah Jones doknow nuffin about it, Jones is a whie man and he doknow nothin abou wha a girl of a man of the rod gotta go through, how alone youh can feel e'en wiff four brovers an sree yunger sisters der. No meestah jones is a smart man at science and art but he donow da struggles o a lil black girl at home, no sir whie man

How is it? Garbage.

you're stupid

>>9136878
>>9136879
Poweful arguments, are you perchance philosophers?

>>9136875
Read sellars' "philosophy and the scientific image of man" because he answers your question. I doubt you can read a twenty page philosophy paper but I'll link it anyway.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://selfpace.uconn.edu/class/percep/SellarsPhilSciImage.pdf&ved=0ahUKEwio_PfH0KHSAhWHZiYKHY4DAdcQFggaMAA&usg=AFQjCNFOUVAku8GKwb89nVpEU6A7AYLTeA&sig2=bXQikRsCw-yg10BHiEWbVg

>Americans

What's good about A Rebours?

Truly, A Rebours is insipid. Las Bas, however, is a wonderful book. weez-MAHN (just say 'mall' through your nose).

Whichever is cheaper.

get the one with the maps

>>9136169
this

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This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time. The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.
This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.

Your neurons and cells are entirely replaced every seven years.

>>9135812
Do you complain about your McDonald's fries tasting the same, but having a slightly different molecular composition from those when you ordered?

Do you complain about your one beer out of a six pack tasting any different than the other five, even though the alcoholic, mineral and sugar content are most likely minutely different?

Does the exact atomic composition and position need to be exactly the same to satisfy your elemental reductionism, so you feel good sentimentally?

Is any of this anything other than just making yourself feel good about not losing something that has unique intrinsic value, and whether you can replace that value through replication?

Maybe the real value arises from the fact that it is a unique item, and its replication is what devalues it.

Mathematical models of human neurons already exist. The field of Machine Learning deals heavily with this.

>>9135859
If you can replicate something exactly, can you use it to replace the original? And if so, is it still the same thing?

I remember reading something about artists in China that attempt to replicate the exact same brush strokes that painters such as Picasso may have taken on a canvas.

If somehow, someone was able to replicate Starry Night using the exact same canvas, oil paint, brush strokes, and somehow managed to age it all in some fashion, is it equivalent to the one hanging in the Museum of Modern Art in New York?

>>9135785

None and Flaubert was wrong, as usual.

>>9135787
Why do you think that?

>>9135785
Again with this recollection meme. Literature is not textbooks to be recalled accurately and completely. One reads for the way literature transforms oneself, not for the information or "facts" therein. My favourite analogy for this is climbing a mountain or walking on a beach or seeing any other interesting, beautiful place: you should enjoy the way this place makes you feel, not try to remember exactly where each landmark or natural feature is placed and what it looked like. If you do have that kind of memory good for you, but don't lose sight of the former for the sake of the latter.